I would like to see my work as critical feminist intervention. The title of my current series of paintings „WE ARE MONSTERS“ sees the cyborg and the monster as a metapher for female self-empowerment and inclusion. It works obviously also with humor. I am occupied with the idea of affirmativeness of negativ stereotypes like “disabled“, “unfit”, “megalomanic”. Between alienation and autonomy there is this gap, this abyss – which is maybe the way out.
I would say I am a political artist. In political theory the imagination should play a bigger role. World-revealing criticism (representatives are Cornelius Castoriades, Linda M.G. Zerilli or Bruno Latour) aims to develop aspects of the world which have not been perceived before. It works with the possibility of existence. It invents with the help of unfamiliar metaphors or artistic perspectives visions of the good and just society – I would say that I am definitely part of this thinking. My agenda lies in the acceptance of difference, of being different.
Maybe the revolution is not something aesthetic any more. It is very likely that it is not something solely human anymore. Imagination, inspiration, transformation and transplantation – for me are all positive terms. They stand for change.
Pop and myth – which I often use as semiotic reservoirs – are both forms of social imaginaries. I try to figure out what these social imaginary reservoirs have bunkered for recombination and re-signification. I work and re-work the surface. I scratch the surface to uncover new perspectives and new visions. To start something new you have at least to believe that is it possible. That – the belief that something new is possible – for me is a feminist political demand.